| Entry: | Numbered area under building 18 as space 181.
Assigned number (4709) to stray finds which pop out of section and I can’t tell the context but must pre-date level X.
Excavated the features cutting (4710). At the west end was a big pit that isn’t bottomed yet (4711) / [4712] and at the east end was a shallow scoop (4713) / [4714]. Both of these had distinctive fills that must come from outside the space and look like they come from inside a building somewhere. Not sure about their functions.
Started removing the stabling deposits, they consist of thin bands of clay / phytolith / coprolite / organic accumulation. It looks like clay and/or straw are being deliberately laid and then coprolite / organic material is accumulating. I am taking this off in layers which are basically a dozen or so thin bands. (4710) and (4715) were done today and there is probably one more to go. It does look like the area was an enclosed /roofed stable. I am basically treating this like an area of floor, which is what it is in terms of broad category, and this means four flotation samples which might give us west to east spatial patterning. I am also taking two archives, one from each end, as somebody might actually look at these unlike 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of those we take which just waste time on site, take up lots of space while drying and then need to be stored. This is of course fine as we are not rushed for time and have unlimited storage space.
The stabling deposits have built up against wall F.469 but go under F.467. F.469 must therefore originally be the wall of an earlier building to the east which was then used as a party wall by building 18 which is interesting and unlike what happens in the later phases.Entered By: Craig Cessford |
